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<~Quattro> AsuraE apparently has a rant and pic for freezing
<&AsuraE> I lost the rant
<&AsuraE> I’ll change shit later

I cbf to rewrite my rant, but the tl;dr of it was do not fucking complain about the names in Freezing. The people who made it couldn’t into English (as seen here). If you think I’m wrong about this, then you’d better start spelling half as harf, queen as qween and transferred as transfferd.

Might as well mention here that Ika S2 batch is getting done (probably looking around next weekend), nura s1 BDs are still a fair bit off (looking at mid to late feb, you can blame Quattro for being lazy and the Australian government for only having shit internet) and that I will be doing the Denpa BDs when they come out (they’re released on the 18th but OVAs tend to be a lot slower to get uploaded than series and movies). Also, steins vol8 should be out on time this month (first time it’ll happen since we picked it up :D).

I’ve tried to get your Madoka encodes and they looked good… until I saw the banding. It’s just awful. Encoding with 10 bits doesn’t mean that you can forget about it in filtering too. I hope you’ll solve this problem because the rest looked quite nice. Until that I’m staying with WiKi.

Also, clean Op should have subs too – they are softsubs and won’t do any harm.

We don’t add subs to the NCOP/NCED because that’s the point, to have nothing. And since we don’t use ordered chapters (at least for these releases so far), there’s no need to include them. We will if/when we do ordered chapters though.

And that I don’t understand. If you hate the show so much why waste time on ecoding, muxing, uploading etc. when you obviously won’t get good results with such attitude. It could be reasonable if you are the only provider of it and saving the world by just releasing it at all, but here clearly it’s not the case.

Well, still not a good enough reason: it’s BD rip with subs of other group (don’t know about behind the scenes relations with actual translator) of popular series – so it just screams “quality, release time isn’t important”, quick and dirty job would interest no one.

The main reason why I continue the discussion is that you acknowledge the problems and make notes for future releases where you are the primary group to watch from.

Just looked at the encoding options – deblock seems too high, that’s probably one of the reasons of mentioned detail loss.

In all honesty, our reasons are moot. If AsuraE didn’t put the work in, it never would have gotten done at all. If you don’t like our Madoka release, download another one. But that does not reflect the quality of ALL our other releases. I’d suggest you check out our Steins;Gate release if you think so (that AsuraE encoded as well).

But I digress, Madoka wasn’t handled with as much care as it could have been. We are aware of this.

I’d disagree on that. With the source the way it is, to get it completely banding free we’d have to throw a ridiculous amount of bitrate at it and end up with even larger files (pointlessly large, even using 10bit).

If you really think it’s possible to end up with a filesize we can release and have no banding anywhere, I’d like to see it. Steins;Gate is a dark show and the BDs themselves aren’t spectacular. This was a compromise and a fair one given the choices.

If you’re gonna talk about steins I’ll listen., then go ahead and encode that. But if you do encode it, 1) no ordered chapters, 2) no zones for the op, 3) end result must be equal or smaller in filesize to mine.

My avs didn’t have banding either, but keeping the detail and having absolutely no banding lead to >2.5GB on average per ep. I’d rather put up with one of you bitching about minor banding (which if you’re smart enough you can easily get rid of on playback) than 20 retards bitching about how big it is.

Can you cut me part with banding and rich details? My net is far from spectacular and downloading full BD would take like a week. (Or at least 1 full ep.) I’ll try to show what can be done at your size of this part.

Just encoding a single section of it wouldn’t prove anything. Of course you can work it to be better in that specific instance, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the encode would come out “perfect” as well.

It comes down to the whole thing. If you can achieve better results with comparable sizes (or at least still reasonable), we’d love that. We want it to be as perfect as you do.

I meant that you’d have to do so on a full episode, not just a part of one. What you asked for sounded like a part of an episode with a lot of banding, not a full episode. BDMVs are separated by episode into .m2ts files generally…

Just a quick question regarding Steins Gate :
“The OP is a bitrate whore and if we went for a “good” file size there would’ve been banding and other shit (i.e. it would’ve looked like Coalgirl’s release)”
=> Why don’t you put the OP as a separate file that will be played thanks to the ordered chapters ? I think Chihiro are doing that for their shows to gain about 100mb in each file, for Steins Gate’s OP (which is a bitrate whore according to AsuraE) it could be a good way to save filespace.

It would’ve taken far longer to reencode all of them and make the ordered chapters, so we decided to leave it as is for Steins;Gate. Besides, we aren’t really concerned with filesizes a bit over what we generally prefer. Steins;Gate is worth it.

From what I’ve read above you don’t give two shits about Madoka, which is your loss. However I just wanted to point out that episode 4’s audio is totally fucked and has been confirmed by several others on various sites, forums, etc. A v2 would be nice but if not I’ll just download BloatGirls instead. Thanks. ^_^

It’s a shit show blown out of proportion by a bunch of autistics because it wasn’t as crap as all the other shit that was airing at the same time, so it’s not a loss to hate it (picture narutards defending naruto, except you replace the narutards with the stereotypical 40 year old neckbeard virgin living in a basement and you replace naruto with madoka). There will be a v2 for ep 4, but I’m busy with uni and shit atm.